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Yeah, fortunately my son works for a parts supply house and gets a pretty good discount on most things. The batteries that would have normally cost me $380 I got for a little over $200. The starter had I ordered it online from a military parts supplier was going for $450, but the local guy had...

Well I know it’s been a bit since I last updated my progress on the starting issue. It was a combination of a couple things wrong with it. The batteries were bad, I replaced them, I charged them and load tested and they were shown to be dead, so with all the heavy rain, snow, etc it took a bit...

Every other vehicle I’ve had to check if it wasn’t locked up I’ve used the harmonic balancer bolt with a socket and two foot breaker bar, and with the exception of some very large bore diesel tractor engines they all were able to be hand turned. I was unsure about the 8.1 as it’s a large engine...

No, I haven’t tried turning it over by hand with a socket and ratchet yet. The starter isn’t turning over at all, it just makes a clinking sound when you engage the start switch. I hadn’t initially given any thought to a possible hydro lock situation until my brother in law mentioned the...

Finally got a load tester for the truck batteries and even after over eight hours of charging they are both still very weak. So I’m going to pull them out and take them to a battery shop and see if they can do a very deep charge on them or verify if they are just no good at which point I will...

I’m still trying to get it to turn over, batteries are deep charged. I have not had a chance to get a load test done yet or pick up a testing unit as I have not been able to get into town yet. Been waiting for a freight company to show up to deliver my new hay spear attachments. I was talking...

I checked my local harbor freight website and they have the tester in stock for $20. I’ll go get one tomorrow and test them disconnected in the truck. I may have the shop test them as well just to verify them, especially if they test damaged or anything. Thanks for the link on the tester.

Fortunately it’s been converted to a two battery system. I’m really hoping it’s just a low battery issue as they are less than a year old. The last owner replaced them before I bought it, they are 950 cca. I will disconnect them and put them back on the charger overnight and be sure they are...

I really hope it’s not the PCB as I literally just replaced it a few months ago with one from Boyce equipment, a brand new unit. But I will definitely check it out to be sure. Thanks.

What would be the proper way to load test them? I have a voltage meter, would I just test each battery separately to verify voltage or would I test them while hooked up in series? I’m not very familiar with the proper procedure to test 24 volt systems. Thanks.

So I went to start up the M939 today and it was a little slow turning over, I stopped and tried a few times. Eventually it started turning over quicker but was cold and didn’t want to start. I pushed the cold start button for the three seconds as the directions indicated to do. It continued to...